Federal Hall, N.Y. 1789 - First Capitol of the United States – Antique Print
![Federal Hall, N.Y. 1789 - First Capitol of the United States, [1790] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b8/b8629952d06d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Federal Hall, N.Y. 1789 - First Capitol of the United States, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Federal Hall, N.Y. 1789 - First Capitol of the United States
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Few views of the building are as early as this one: a hand-colored engraving that shows Federal Hall in New York, the first seat of the national government. The former City Hall on Wall Street was remodeled for Congress, and George Washington took the presidential oath on its balcony on April 30, 1789. Congress met there until the capital moved to Philadelphia in 1790. The print was issued by Amos Doolittle, a New Haven engraver, and its hand coloring was typical of the small, inexpensive views sold to Americans who wanted images of the new government.
| Created / published | [1790] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print mounted on paper : engraving, hand-colored ; 20 x 14.7 cm. (trimmed), 26.1 x 18.4 (mount) |
| Genre | printed & sold by A. Doolittle |
| Notes | Leonard Hassam Bogast Collection. Title of NYPL copy: Federal Hall |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 6,839 × 9,577 px · prints to 23 × 32 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif15703_FederalHallNY1789FirstCapitolo |
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